News & Updates

Northeast Texas Community College students Courtney Baldwin, Jazmin Garcia, Daniel Landaverde, Verania Leyva-Garcia, and Andrea Reyes were all named semi-finalists in the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Transfer Scholarship competition. The Jack Kent Cooke scholarship is worth $40,000 a year for up to three years, for a total scholarship value of $120,000.

On Tuesday 25 February, from 12:15 to 1:15 PM in the Community Room of the Mount Pleasant Library, 601 North Madison, three members of Honors Northeast will present original essays on regional themes.  An anonymous donor will provide pizza, salad, and drinks, especially to those who email Dr. Andrew Yox ahead of time, at <ayox@ntcc.edu>--during the presentations.  The event is free and open to the public.

Do you want to have some fun on the farm during spring break? If so, join Renee McCracken for two fun filled classes where you can learn to preserve the harvest and become a true farmer! She may even let you cuddle some of the goats!

Northeast Texas Community College students Mercedes Collins, Tonya Hammonds, Jacob Lambie, and Daniel Landaverde recently learned that they had been named semi-finalists for Phi Theta Kappa’s Fall Common Scholarship Competition. The Fall Common Scholarships include the All USA Community College Academic Team, Coca-Cola Scholars, Guistwhite, and Hites Scholarships.

Every year the NTCC Faculty Senate awards one or more scholarships to students who reside in Texas, have at least 15 semester hours, and are NOT receiving scholarship assistance above $500.00. The awards are funded by donation and payroll deductions from current and previous NTCC faculty members for students to finish their education at NTCC.

The Northeast Texas Community College Art Department will host an exhibit featuring paintings by Gary Perrone Friday, Feb. 7 through Wednesday, Feb. 26. A reception with the artist is will be held Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 p.m. in the Whatley Center foyer gallery. Refreshments will be served.

Honors Northeast, the Honors Program at Northeast Texas Community College since 2007, has admitted three new members for the spring semester. 

In this the 8th cinematic premiere of a story from the Texas past in as many years, Honors Northeast, and the NTCC Webb Society will feature the story of Adina De Zavala. She was the granddaughter of Texas’ First Vice President, Lorenzo De Zavala. She and her San Antonio Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas played the pivotal role in re-centering and Catholicizing the nature of Texas patriotism in the early twentieth-century.  The movie, at 7PM on Friday, 21 February at the Whatley Center of NTCC is free, and the public is invited.  The script is based on an original interpretation of the De Zavala story pursued by the scholars of Honors Northeast. Thanks to the patrons of Honors Northeast, there will also be free refreshments after the film, and a panel discussion led by student actors and directors of the feature-length production.

The Northeast Texas Community College Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Program recently learned that all 12 of its December 2019 graduating class passed their professional licensure exam on the first try. Upon graduating with their Associate of Applied Science degree in PTA, graduates are required to sit for the NPTE Board Exam before starting their professional careers.

Mercedes Collins, NTCC’s 2019-20 Texas Heritage Bank Scholar, had the highest combined grade in the Fall of 2019 Humusic Seminar, a learning community that combines modern world history, and music appreciation.  Katelyn Cox came ahead of her peers in the Biotex Seminar, that combines general biology with Texas history.